Two Held For ''Hurling'' Petrol Bombs At RSS Office in Ranchi

New Delhi: The Jharkhand Police on Thursday arrested two persons for allegedly hurling petrol bombs at the RSS office in Ranchi. The duo were apprehended from Lohardaga district late on Wednesday, and a car used by them was seized, an officer said. Ranchi senior superintendent of police Rakesh Ranjan said that during the investigation, the police had recovered shards of glass bottles from the spot. A forensic team visited the spot to ascertain the contents of the bottles, suspected to be petrol. No explosive item such as an IED or bomb was found.

Senior BJP leader and Jharkhand former chief minister Raghubar Das strongly condemned the petrol bomb attack on the RSS office in Ranchi, describing the incident as an outcome of the JMM-led government's "vote bank and appeasement policy". Das visited the RSS office on Wednesday and raised questions over the prevailing law and order situation in the state.

The BJP leader said he had spoken to Jharkhand DGP Tadasha Mishra in connection with the attack, and demanded a special investigation team to apprehend the culprits and to expose their conspiracy.

"It was an attack on nationalism. It was an outcome of the freedom allowed to 'jehadis' for the sake of vote bank and appeasement policy," Mr Das alleged.

The Vishva Hindu Parishad on Thursday also demanded that the identities of the accused arrested in connection with the alleged petrol bomb attack on an RSS office in Ranchi be made public immediately. The RSS affiliate also sought a probe into whether the incident was inspired by the Congress' "anti-RSS sentiment".

"Even after 36 hours have passed since the attack on the Sangh office in Ranchi, why is the Ranchi Police still avoiding disclosure of the accused?" VHP national spokesperson Vinod Bansal said in a statement.

"Reports of the arrest of the accused are appearing in the media, but why can't the Ranchi administration make their names public?" he asked.

Bansal said it is necessary to identify the culprits and ensure strict punishment for them. "It must also be investigated whether this incident is in any way inspired by the Congress' anti-RSS sentiment," he said.

The VHP leader said the petrol bomb attack on the RSS' provincial office in Ranchi is "extremely worrying and condemnable". He said the connections of the conspirators behind the incident, and from whose inspiration and instructions they carried out this attack, must be disclosed immediately.